Western Digital My Book Live. Any good?

Mister 44

Mister 44

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Does anybody have any experience with the My Book Lives and My Book Live Duos from WD? I'm looking for a cheap NAS device and most other options seems to be overkill. I just want storage that is network accessible, 24/7, without having to boot up the PC.
Minimum of 3TB needed.
Maximum two users will read files at the same time.
Files shared will be 90% media files and 10% documents of various flavors.

Thanks in advance.
 
Personally I stay away from Western Digital. I've had plenty of bad experiences with them in the past and I've heard more recent stories similar to my older experiences. Actually two and a half weeks ago I was at a client and while checking something on their server, I heard the IT guys talk about a WD hard drive that was still kinda new and something went wrong on the platters or something and everything is gone. I wasn't paying too much attention and I don't know enough about the technical stuff to understand everything, but from what I did understand is that they, like me, only be believe in Seagate when it comes to HDDs.

I've had some bad experiences with Maxtor and Samsung as well, but those were either in work PCs or laptops and I didn't specifically buy them myself.
 
I've got the WD My Book Live, 3TB version. Been up and running for about 4 to 5 months now on our network, works 100% (touchwood). Quite easy to setup as well. Free gift so I'm not complaining :)
 
Nemesis said:
I've got the WD My Book Live, 3TB version. Been up and running for about 4 to 5 months now on our network, works 100% (touchwood). Quite easy to setup as well. Free gift so I'm not complaining :)
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Bad reviews and bad reports have nothing on hardware if its free and for home use :P
 
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